Abu Inan Faris

Abu Inan Faris (1329–1358), son of the Marinid sultan Abu al-Hasan Ali, was governing Tlemcen when Arab tribes routed his father at Kairouan in 1348. He returned to Fes and declared himself sultan, while Tlemcen and the central Maghreb rose in revolt.

After his father died in 1351 he retook Tlemcen in 1352 and Béjaïa in 1353. Granada, fearing an invasion, sponsored a short-lived revolt by his brother Abu al-Fadl. He took Tunis in 1357, becoming master of Ifriqiya, until intrigues forced him to retreat.

He built madrasas at Meknes and Fes, from which the Bou Inania madrasas take their name, and commissioned Ibn Juzayy to record Ibn Battuta's travels, finished in 1355. He fell ill in 1357, and as he recovered his vizier had him strangled in January 1358.